mercator Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 It's fun, isn't it? I can't wait until she is here and we learn more of these kinds of things together... I discovered that I need to swap mattresses. Unfortunately, it is a Tempurpedic, to the tune of $2000, or as I look at it, one trip to China. No, I won't go back to a regular mattress. I've had the mattress about 3 years. I bought it shortly after I moved to my current house. I was married at the time. My now ex-wife slept on it for a couple months. My SO asked about this and immediately said it needed to go. It 'bodes ill' for the marriage. It wasn't the bed we had through our whole marriage, but the ex- slept on it so it has to go. I can keep the boxspring and the four-poster though. Only the mattress has to go! Merc Link to comment
Randy W Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Mine only wants a new set of sheets! No problem! Link to comment
david_dawei Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 My bed is directly on the floor... I was never asked who previously slept in it. She likes to apply, the past is past; don't need to talk about it if it's not relevant. Although when someone asked her what she wanted for a wedding present, she said, "I have no bed" TRANSLATION: No frame to get it off the floor... I felt brave enough to push a serious face joke: I told her to sleep on the floor if she wants as it is basically the same as her bed in china (if you can call a sheet of wood a bed)... she said, 'we already sleep on floor'... Don't try to outwit a chinese lady, even with only a few months of english. Link to comment
Guest ShaQuaNew Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Mine only wants a new set of sheets! No problem!165045[/snapback]While shopping for sheets my SO and I discovered that Chinese sheets are differerent than traditional western sheets. I let my SO go on this one as we discussed to find common terms for comforters and fitted sheets. We found great sales, but no fitted sheets. Link to comment
david_dawei Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 My SO didn't use sheets in china... they are for those who can afford luxury... Link to comment
Jeikun Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Hmmm... You know, I believe in honesty. But I also sometimes believe in saving people from themselves, saving people's feelings, saving face, and yes! SAVING MONEY. Sometimes a little white lie is not an evil thing. (unless you think that could jinx the marriage "sleeping on the bed of lies" and all that) Link to comment
Jeikun Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Jun's mom had custom sheets made for our bed here. Of course, no fitted sheet and only one flat sheet (which is meant to lie directly over the mattress). I remember Jun's bed in Hefei felt like someone took a perfectly good mattress and put a piece of plywood on top of it. My floors are much softer than that. At her apt in Beijing, it was closer to a western bed, sort of a boxspring with a pillow-top - too firm for me, but not too bad. She has no complaints with our western mattresses. Link to comment
Joanne Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 (edited) My SO didn't use sheets in china... they are for those who can afford luxury...165075[/snapback]Cann't be true. How did you wife sleep then? I would say, it's just a different way of doing bedding. My husband agrees, our Chinese way is better, more comfortable. Edited November 1, 2005 by Joanne (see edit history) Link to comment
jbray Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 mercator, that's too bad about the mattress... In China we also slept on a board, on a frame. We did have a sheet though. I couldn't stand it. My back hurt every morning. In the summer, she broke out the bamboo mat and put that over the sheet. Wow, was that uncomfertable! She likes a hard bed, I like a fairly soft one... I just got a Select Comfort ("sleep number") bed. That way one of us can have a hard mattress, and the other can have a soft one. I haven't told her how much it cost. She would flip out if she knew. Link to comment
david_dawei Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 My SO didn't use sheets in china... they are for those who can afford luxury...165075[/snapback]Cann't be true. How did you wife sleep then? I would say, it's just a different way of doing bedding. My husband agrees, our Chinese way is better, more comfortable.165087[/snapback]I'm differentiating a bed sheet as the fitted sheet and then the second [thin] sheet that is closest to your body. She used neither one of these. She slept directly on top of the bed cover , covering lumpy clothes folded up for lumpy cushion B) ... and used a comforter over her. My back was a wreak most of the time... We went out and bought a one inch pad... and gave me an excuse to rearrange the lumpy clothes... Link to comment
BuffaloPaul Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 My wife worried for 2 years about my bed since she has a rock hard mattress and uses the old bamboo cover in the summer. But much to her surprise she loves the pillow top mattress I had bought. Can't seem to get her out of bed now B) Link to comment
Joanne Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 My SO didn't use sheets in china... they are for those who can afford luxury...165075[/snapback]Cann't be true. How did you wife sleep then? I would say, it's just a different way of doing bedding. My husband agrees, our Chinese way is better, more comfortable.165087[/snapback]I'm differentiating a bed sheet as the fitted sheet and then the second [thin] sheet that is closest to your body. She used neither one of these. She slept directly on top of the bed cover , covering lumpy clothes folded up for lumpy cushion B) ... and used a comforter over her. My back was a wreak most of the time... We went out and bought a one inch pad... and gave me an excuse to rearrange the lumpy clothes... 165095[/snapback]I think using a comforter cover (which bags the whole comforter in) is better than just a loose sheet, because the loose sheet always got loose from the blanket or comforter during our sleep. Then, We would end up in this tangled mess. Link to comment
warpedbored Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 At 2K a pop for a new mattress I think I would find a new price tag to attach to the old one. My wife and I went mattress shopping after she got here. I slept on a futon mattress before she came and she complained it was too soft. After about a dozen mattress stores where one mattress after another was declared too soft we finally found a pillow top that would do although it too was too soft. A little firm for me but still much better than the upholstered rocks they sleep on in China. Link to comment
sylinchinastill Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 If you want something to do with the Tempurpedic- just send it to TN- I'm dying for one of those mattresses! :-) Link to comment
philb Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 I dropped to the floor to get a softer surface one night!!! I mentioned a water bed to her that I still own....now there is the definition of "CONFUSION". How this work? I will most certainly NOT tell her who has slept in my bed (Before we met - of course)! Don't ask - don't tell.... Phil Link to comment
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